It's official, homes are like ammo

[Larry Caldwell]

In hindsight, I mispoke. The reality is you can need a buttload of ammo just to practice regularly.

There's a lot of pleasure in being a really proficient shooter. I have my "100 Straight" trophy from the trap range, and have a lot of fun playing Jerry Miculek with my 686. Even at that, I can still manage to embarrass myself at a steel shoot. Cowboy shooting is a hoot too.

Fortunately, I'm in a rural area with a long shooting tradition. My rod and gun club has 100 acres of land with 1/4 mile of river frontage on the North Umpqua, plus a bass pond, indoor and outdoor pistol ranges, 200 meter rifle range, woodland archery range, cowboy shooting set/IDPA range, a big clubhouse with a classroom, commercial kitchen, restaurant seating, 8' outdoor gas fired grill, and a large picnic area with covered pavilion. We can host shooting competitions with clubs from all over the region, sponsor Boy Scout small bore and shotgun merit badges, and run continual CCP training and new shooter classes. We host an annual gun owner legal seminar, most recently taught by a Circuit Court judge, the County District Attorney, a defense attorney, the County Sheriff, and the police chief of the county seat.

Dues are $8/month - $96/year. Range fees, ammo, and targets are extra. It's an indication of how much real estate prices have escalated over the decades. The facilities were mostly built after WWII with a lot of volunteer labor. The club is still volunteer - the only paid employee is the groundskeeper. Local businesses have sponsored several facility upgrades and repairs, most recently refinishing the 2nd floor lounge in the club house and rebuilding the indoor pistol range.

I have 90 acres with plenty of room to shoot, but still use the rod and gun club facilities.

Here's a link to the club web site. I'm the guy in the white T in the first group photo, though 70 lbs. lighter than when that shot was taken.

Roseburg Gun Club | We're not just a gun club

 

[Sigarms]

There's a lot of pleasure in being a really proficient shooter. I have my "100 Straight" trophy from the trap range, and have a lot of fun playing Jerry Miculek with my 686. Even at that, I can still manage to embarrass myself at a steel shoot. Cowboy shooting is a hoot too.

Fortunately, I'm in a rural area with a long shooting tradition. My rod and gun club has 100 acres of land with 1/4 mile of river frontage on the North Umpqua, plus a bass pond, indoor and outdoor pistol ranges, 200 meter rifle range, woodland archery range, cowboy shooting set/IDPA range, a big clubhouse with a classroom, commercial kitchen, restaurant seating, 8' outdoor gas fired grill, and a large picnic area with covered pavilion. We can host shooting competitions with clubs from all over the region, sponsor Boy Scout small bore and shotgun merit badges, and run continual CCP training and new shooter classes. We host an annual gun owner legal seminar, most recently taught by a Circuit Court judge, the County District Attorney, a defense attorney, the County Sheriff, and the police chief of the county seat.

Dues are $8/month - $96/year. Range fees, ammo, and targets are extra. It's an indication of how much real estate prices have escalated over the decades. The facilities were mostly built after WWII with a lot of volunteer labor. The club is still volunteer - the only paid employee is the groundskeeper. Local businesses have sponsored several facility upgrades and repairs, most recently refinishing the 2nd floor lounge in the club house and rebuilding the indoor pistol range.

I have 90 acres with plenty of room to shoot, but still use the rod and gun club facilities.

Here's a link to the club web site. I'm the guy in the white T in the first group photo, though 70 lbs. lighter than when that shot was taken.

Roseburg Gun Club | We're not just a gun club

You brought something up I forgot all about... good gun clubs.

Up north, shooting was never a problem because of all the gun clubs you could join (at least in the areas I lived in).

I thought when I moved south, there would be public shooting galore all over the place (my buddies joked I was moving to redneckville), boy was I ever wrong. Paid clubs I could find were generally a shooting 8-10 bayrange only, and you all kinds of interesting people show up with no range officers.

Last club I belonged to up north, and I kind of miss going there with my buddies shooting.

Rifle Range | Black Ash Sportsman Inc.

Just different in my area of NC where if you don't own property, you most likely aren't shooting.